Strawberry Redux

jack: 2nd Dec 2005 - 16:40 GMT

trash of red and green, candles gleaming inside, painted candy canes on the tree, or perhaps from a distance it could be a tear from an old man who still thinks of his children as little children and is desperately trying to get home to see his family around the kitchen table, laughing and eating cookies while doing their homework, and his beautiful wife preparing dinner. there is christmas music playing on the phonograph as the old man runs to sit down in his chair and talk with his babies. the feeling of his family all there, all cheerie and bright, and before dinner he will hide somewhere in the living room and call out to his children with an eerie sound and they will run around screeming looking for him. and he will be happy. he will thank GOD for the little years given him with his family and he will look to present, today, where he is playing with his grandchildren and he and his beautiful wife are laughing and cheerie.

GGP: 2nd Dec 2005 - 16:45 GMT

the "little years"
I like that, Jack.

the unbearable pathos of a wrinkled plastic strawberry than can only dream of strawberriness, having existed solely as the shell of an idea of something unreplicable: the magic that flicks from nature's hand.

Samantha: 17th Dec 2005 - 15:54 GMT

I love this photo Elaine. I love tones of grey - and the tones of grey in those pavement slabs resonate so well with the strawberry red - like a broken heart on a cloudy day.

elaine: 17th Dec 2005 - 18:15 GMT

thank you for comments. sometimes i get to think i am taking pictures that just anyone could or would take, and maybe not very well, either - but perhaps i am that strawberry wrapper that can only dream of strawberriness, and maybe i am a brave face like too-bright makeup on a cried out face, masking that broken heart on the cloudy day which is very much my life - in which case not only could only i take these pictures, but also i may be the only one who would want to - i wouldn't wish my life on anyone, but i am glad these pictures mean something to other people, it makes things less lonely

Peter: 26th May 2006 - 14:42 GMT

moldy dinner rolls scattered about the sidewalk:

newark, nj...